Yesterday, we reported that Kim Kardashian got engaged to New Jersey Nets player Kris Humphries with a ginormous 20.5-carat ring. Today the Daily News asks how much that jumbo hunk of bling weighs, with a Manhattan jeweler guesstimating that it clocks in at a whopping four ounces. What exactly does four ounces look like? Here's a sample of what else Kimmy could be dragging around on her finger for the same workout: more ›

Yesterday, there was a bit of confusion as to just how suspect Earle (or Earl) Barranco was arrested for the fatal shooting of Corey Scott at the Good Stuff Diner on October 23rd. One source said he was in a VIP room at the Charlotte Bobcats game on Saturday. Another said he was walking into the arena when he was peacefully arrested. But now the Daily News reports that cops spotted him on the JumboTron wearing the same bling he had on the night of the shooting. When he showed up in the same arena wearing the same bling days later, they arrested him. Does nobody remember what happened to Frank Lucas? more ›

It turns out that David Brooks, the DHB military contractor who was just convicted of ripping off $190 million from his company for personal expenses, likes his insider trading and securities fraud with a side dish of sexual harassment. Brooks was hit with a horndog lawsuit from a former female employee who says that, among other things, he would ask her to "collect his semen." Charm must go hand-in-hand with defective bullet proof vests! more ›

David Brooks, the Long Island military contractor accused of fraud and insider trading, was convicted yesterday, and the papers bring up a greatest hits of items he charged to his former company: "A 2005 multimillion-dollar Rainbow Room bash where 50 Cent, Tom Petty and Aerosmith performed at his daughter's bat mitzvah," "a face-lift for his ex-wife, hookers for his employees, a $194,000 Bentley for himself," his mother's grave, "fine china, private jet flights, luxury cars...and the six-figure jewel-encrusted belt buckle designed to look like the American flag." more ›

At the trial of DHB military contractor David Brooks, who is accused of fraud and insider trading, his former CFO Dawn Schlegel has been testifying for 23 days. The NY Times reports from the trial, being held at a district court on Long Island, "DHB, which specialized in making body armor used by the military in Iraq and Afghanistan, paid for more than $6 million in personal expenses on behalf of Mr. Brooks, covering items as expensive as luxury cars and as prosaic as party invitations, Ms. Schlegel testified. Also included were university textbooks for his daughter, pornographic videos for his son, plastic surgery for his wife, a burial plot for his mother, prostitutes for his employees, and, for him, a $100,000 American-flag belt buckle encrusted with rubies, sapphires and diamonds." more ›

"Don't bring expensive jewelry while giving birth" might be one lesson of this story from the Post: "An Upper West Side mom and Citigroup exec is suing to get back the baubles she left at Mount Sinai Medical Center's maternity ward. Alison Coen Searcy's suit accuses Marie Pugh, a since-fired nurse's aide, of grabbing $50,000 worth of bling on March 5, two days after Searcy's son was born." Searcy claims she left her "$22,000 diamond engagement ring, $8,800 wedding ring, $4,000 Cartier watch and $3,500 diamond ring on a windowsill before showering"—apparently Pugh was "allegedly captured on videotape entering the room about 15 minutes after the Searcys left." Coen Searcy wants the jewels or the money to cover them. more ›

Seems like just yesterday that Brooklyn's baby walrus was getting a name, but now at just over a year old Akituusaq he's gotten his tusks, or rather titanium crowns on his tusks! The Daily News reports that he "was fitted with the caps after his keepers noticed the tips of his tiny tusks were already wearing away." Rather than risk a bacterial infection in his tusks, he received some dental bling. A curator at the New York Aquarium joked about "putting a diamond in one, or having a laser etch his initials in the other." On a more serious tip, however, the Aquarium lost the baby's father, Ayveg, earlier this year, and is likely be extra careful with his offspring. more ›

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Get ready to groan: "I look forward to 'Phase Two' of the 'blinging up' of the Parachute Jump," said inveterate cornball Marty Markowitz during his recent State of the Borough speech. The 262-foot Coney Island landmark was retrofitted with a lighting system two years ago, but borough president Markowitz and others deemed the effect too subdued and “artsy.” Now the city is soliciting proposals from companies to create a flashier effect. more ›